Sometimes, the expressions on a person's face can mean much more than what they say. To help you stay in touch with your friends and family, we’re launching Google Talk with video and voice chat for Android phones.

You can now video or voice chat with your friends, family and colleagues right from your Android phone, whether they’re on their compatible Android tablet or phone, or using Gmail with Google Talk on their computer. You can make calls over a 3G or 4G data network (if your carrier supports it) or over Wi-Fi.

In your Google Talk friends list, a video or voice chat button will appear next to your contacts and you can simply touch the button to connect with them. Any text chats from the person you’re talking with will be overlaid on your phone’s screen so you can read them without having to leave the video. And, if you need to check something else, the video pauses automatically so you can go back to your phone’s home screen or another app. The audio will keep going even though the video has paused. Check out how this works:

Google Talk with video and voice chat will gradually roll out to Nexus S devices in the next few weeks as part of the Android 2.3.4 over-the-air update and will launch on other Android 2.3+ devices in the future. To learn more about using video and voice chat, check out our Help Center.

The fragmentation sucks. All these pieces should be on Android Market at not put customer at the mercy of the lazy manufacturers and carriers. Also, CyanogenMod exists not because people want to root their phones - it's because people are tired of waiting! So, you should partially at least fix this problem by putting all core pieces on the Market - just like it is the case with Gmail, etc.

To all of you saying that it should be in Market — it WILL be! It just requires OS 2.3+. From the post:«Google Talk with video and voice chat … will launch on other Android 2.3+ devices in the future»of course, since fragmentation doesn't exist, that should be no problem.

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It's so painful everytime you only make updates available for only a small portion of Android phones. You should put the OS version in the title blog, so that we don't get excited unnnecesarily for folks who have ancient 2.2 OS and still can't update.

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Every time that I try to start a video call over 3g it says "You must be connected to a Wi-Fi network to start a video chat". What am I doing wrong? The post states "You can make calls over a 3G or 4G data network (if your carrier supports it)..." Does T-mobile not support this feature?

I just updated my T-Mobile Nexus S to 2.3.4 and the video and voice calls work great over Wi-Fi, but once I'm on 3G, I get an error dialog saying "You must be connected to a Wi-Fi network to start a video/voice chat." If a voice or video invitation comes in when on 3G, a notification comes on saying I missed the call because I wasn't on Wi-Fi. I see no settings in Talk or the System relating to accepting or denying calls when on various network types. What gives?

Very Good ! In the EU Market, make sure a full set of tools goes with it : TEXT TRANSLATION and while video-chatting, this is very helpful for businesses , corporations, stores, factories , hospitals , professionals and students ,etc.,

If Google and partners market this wisely and cheap to start, they will achieve huge penetration in many markets where there is room to grow, so go for it !

( to break any complains in the EU and other markets , you may consider fring and skype on the side too ) SET A HIGH STANDARD OF QUALITY AND WIN THE MINDS.

I wonder if users will be able to send video or voice messages to contacts similar to what can be done with the current google talk features. I for instance would like to send short voice messages without beeing connected to the counterpart, i currently use the app heytell for the voice messages now but it would be Awsome if Android would support this functionality out-of-the-box.

The main thing is that I can send voice messages to both online and offline contacts and that the can listen to these messages when they choose to.

ATTN: GOOGLE, VERY IMP: I have been using my Nexus S for past couple of months, I have noticed the android stock keyboard has crashed numerous times. It is really frustrating as sometimes you need to restart the phone to get it working fine again. Kindly look in to it..

Beautiful, one more time a feature that no one can use but 1% of the user base.

It's one of the reasons i'll never get or suggest an android phone when non geek persons ask me what they should use : Too much maintenance if rooted, too few updates if not rooted. An iPhone is a vastly better and more secure choice.

I don't really use Google Talk now but I have used it on my computer before and tried it when I 1st got my EVO. I was told the EVO 4G will get GB 2.3 soon but who knows if it's true and when. The EVO 3D will be out soon. But I have been using the new Fring Video Chat and it keeps disconnecting me in the middle of a chat.